A month ago I wrote that I was happy with my recovery from pregnancy and giving birth. I also wrote that I had lost the baby weight without going on a diet or following an exercise plan and that I was happy to just wing it and take mum & baby classes when I could Read More
Month: March 2018
Mum life part 5/5 – Friday
It’s Friday! The last day of the week being on my own with my baby girl. Weekends no longer mean lie-ins or dinners out but with Maia’s daddy at home during the day I can share the baby duty, I have adult company, and we usually do something nice together. But before the weekend, here Read More
Mum life part 4/5 – Thursday
5.15am – Maia wakes up for the first time but unfortunately it’s not the first for me. I stayed up too late watching telly yesterday and Maia’s dream feed lasted for an hour so I only got to bed after midnight. For some reason I had disturbing dreams and kept waking up. Once I even Read More
Mum life part 3/5 – Wednesday
5.00am – Maia wakes up and I feed her for 15-minutes and put her back to bed. I feel like a zombie although we’ve slept for five hours. Looking back at it, I don’t know how I survived the first weeks and months with the newborn. Maia wakes up again two minutes later – sigh Read More
Mum life part 2/5 – Tuesday
5.30am – Maia wakes up for a feed having slept nearly 6 hours since the dream feed last night (at 11pm for 45-minutes). I feed her for 20-minutes and we fall asleep on my bed and sleep for another two hours (she has another 30-minute sleepy feed around 7am). 8.00am – I wake Maia up Read More
Mum life part 1/5 – Monday
But what do you DO all day on maternity leave?? I’ve been asked this question directly and indirectly, and for sure wondered it myself before having a baby. So to shed light on what I do during my days alone at home with my 15-week (3.5 months) old baby girl, I’m kicking off a series Read More
New baby milestones reached!
Maia and I have spent the last two (long) days at home because frustratingly for what is already the second time this winter I’ve caught a cold… There are no sick days from being a mum though so all I’ve been able do has been to keep activities to the minimum and sleep when Maia Read More
My first Mother’s Day
I woke up to my first Mother’s Day the same way I’ve been waking up every day for the last 14 weeks – my baby girl cooing in her Moses basket next to my bed, little legs kicking the air letting me know it was time to get up. It was 6am already, after all! Read More
Ultrasound scan of the empty womb
Last week I had an pelvic ultrasound scan. No, I’m not pregnant nor would I want to be at the moment. I had different reasons for this examination but nevertheless it felt strange to have a scan when there was no one there! Two years ago I went to see a gynaecologist because I was Read More
Mum body three months after baby
It’s been three months since my last day of pregnancy and I thought now is a good time to look back and recap how I’ve physically recovered from the process of creating new life. Although I enjoyed my pregnancy, towards the end of it I started looking forward to getting my body back to myself. I Read More